Monat: Januar 2018

User Group Newsletter – January 2018

Welcome to 2018!
 
Important Vancouver Summit Updates
The countdown is on until the next Summit in May. Below are some important updates regarding CFP, Travel and Summit Passes

CFP is now open!

Call for presentations are now open for the Vancouver Summit. The deadline to submit your proposal is February 8th.
There are some new changes to the structure of the CFP, such as track organisation. Read more here. 

Summit Passes and Hotels

These sold quick in 2015 when we last went to Vancouver, don’t miss out and secure yours today. You can do so here. 

Visas

For information regarding Visa applications and invitation letters, read about it here.
As a general planning guideline, if a visa is needed, a foreign traveler should apply for his or her visa as soon as possible, preferably no later than 60 days before the travel date.

Travel Support Program

The Travel Support Program (TSP) aims to facilitate participation of key contributors to the OpenStack Summit by covering the costs for their travel and accommodations. The grants will cover a combination of flights, accommodation, and access pass to the Summit. More details here.
All contributors to OpenStack (developers, documentation writers, organizers of user groups around the world, Ask moderators, speakers, translators, etc) are invited to submit a request. You can apply by filling out this form.

More questions?

Got any other questions about the Summit? There is an excellent FAQ here. 

Ops Meetup Tokyo
The next OpenStack Ops Meetup is happening March 6-7 in Tokyo.
Register here.
Information from Wiki
Project Teams Gathering (PTG)
The Project Teams Gathering (PTG) in Dublin February 26 – March 2. It’s an event for anyone who self-identifies as a member in a specific given project team as well as operators who are specialists on a given project and willing to spend their time giving feedback on their use case and contributing their usage experience to the project team.
Upcoming Industry Events
FODSEM
The Foundation will be present at FODSEM in Brussels, February 3-4 2018.
OpenStack booth will be in building K, level 1

https://fosdem.org/2018

OpenStack delivers a keynote at Chaosscon
Feb 2, 2018 in Brussels

http://grimoirelab.github.io/con/

Upcoming CFP
LF Open Source Leadership
Closing date: January 21, 2018
OSCON 2018
Closing Date: January 30, 2018
LinuxCon ContainerCon | CloudOpen China
Closing Date: March 4, 2018
ONS Europe
Closing Date: June 24, 2018
OpenStack Technical Committee E-office Hours
The TC has e-office hours each week to field any questions you may have.
Find out more details here:

https://governance.openstack.org/tc/

Quelle: openstack.org